The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Hats and bonnets are very picturesque
this season.
All Paris frocks are more looped than
London gowns.
Ostrich feather bows and band trim
mings are coming in vogue.
The variety in bodices, corsages and
sleeves is seemingly endless.
The polonaise is revived, but is not
so popular here as on the other side.
A diamond sun, instead of star or
crescent, is the newest corsage brooch
for bride.
Next to yellow, cardinal red is the
best color for the ribbon of lady's
driving whip.
There are about eighteen thousand
female students in the different colleges
in the United States.
Miss Ada Lee, an attorney at Port
Huron, Mich, has held the Office of Cir
cult Court Commissioner for three
years.
Nets of gold, silver and steel, jet
beads and other beads are not infre-
quently drawn over the crowns of dressy
bonnets and hats.
The crowns of velvet and plush hats
and bonnets are frequently studded
thickly with sharks teeth, pointed
pieces of black jet.
Siren, pale sea green, shot with gold
and with crimson, appears in many of
the new ribbons and millinery fabrics,
plushes, velvets and moires.
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the only good form and freedom of
movement and comfort are of first con-
sideration in all the details of the ward
robe
Gobelin blue with very dark rich ma
hogany shades are used in children's
costumes with good effect. This is also
a popular combination In ladies' cos
tunes.
The most elegant of all black gowns is
of velvet, trimmed with Chantilly laces
and rows of that long-stranded, tine-cut
jet bead fringe called ''rain fringe" by
dressmakers.
Following the pretty English fashion,
even young matrons wear the breakfast
cap, and it is nowadays a most coquet-
tish and attractive affair of dainty lace
and vevet bows.
The Dutch patterns in children's cos
tunes still are the most attractive and
picturesque models, and the Gretchen
dress is still among the most becoming
and popular of all.
Shot woollen fabrics, with the warp
of red, the woof of blue, green, brown,
/ yellow or gray, in various shades of those
colors, are the latest novelty seen on
dry goods counters.
A woman was awarded the first
! premium for sheep raising at the last
state fair of Iowa. Many excellent in
ventions by Iowa women are coming into
mark etable demand.
Feathers, not stuffed birds, are seen
on the attractive bonnets this season,
but they are cocks plumes and ostrich
tips which do not shock the sensibilities
of the Audubon Society.
A new woollen fabric, velvet cloth
with thick, strong frill, takes tn
name of cardinal cloth because it is useC
for cardinals robes when in bright reC
shades. 1t comes in other colors as wei
as red, and is used for short or lonI
evening eloaks, for the underskirts an'
panels of light cloth and serge dresse
and other parts OF wool costumes.
In purchasing furs sure test of wha
dealers call ''prime' fur is the lengt
and density of the down next the skin
This can be readily determined by blow
ing a brisk current Of air from the mout
''against the set of fur" If the fibe
; opens readily, exposing the skin I
view, reject the article; but if the dow
is so dense that the breath cannot PEN
/ trate it, OF, at most, shows but a sma
portion of the skin, the article may b
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